Hot List Hotels 2009
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Full-barrel international style arrives in medieval Bruges, a place better known for its cozy, idiosyncratic lodgings. At the 93-room Kempinski, in a...
Featuring the same pan-Asian decorative exoticism as the original Buddha-Bar restaurant, in Paris, the first Buddha-Bar hotel brings its dramatic...
Just steps from Republic Square and its fabulously Art Nouveau Municipal House, the Kempinski Hybernská occupies a fifteenth-century palace,...
With only 13 rooms, the Nimb is more a guesthouse than a hotel—and arguably the finest place to stay in Copenhagen. Named after the family who...
Perfectly located on Park Lane, the historic Grosvenor House, emerging from a four-year makeover, emanates a cocooning atmosphere of well-trained...
Until recently a raffish exclusive club for entertainment types like Pete Townsend and Michael Caine, this splendid neo-Gothic edifice on a quiet cul...
On a bluff between the fashionable resort towns of Polzeath and Rock is the rebuilt St. Moritz, reincarnating a beloved postwar forebear. Chef Elliot...
Just steps from the spattering fountains of the Cours Mirabeau, this handsome seventeenth-century townhouse is owned and run by the same team that...
Following a lavish renovation of this city center grande dame, Bordeaux finally has the luxury hotel it so sorely lacked. Opposite the magnificent...
Savvy Provence lovers are heading east of Apt, where the lavender fields aren't hemmed in by tour buses. Discover this unspoiled place in the sun from...
Located in a funky eastern Paris neighborhood, this sassy hotel is an instant hit for its low prices and tongue-in-cheek Philippe Starck decor. A...
It's not easy to impress the old monied and well-traveled set of Hamburg, but the city's younger generation is clearly pleased by this energetic new...
More reliable ferry connections, featuring a twice-daily run of the high-speed hydrofoil from the mainland port of Piraeus, are transforming...
Along whitewashed steps zigzagging down the side of the caldera in the village of Imerovigli, this tiny (for now) hotel looks out not only on a serene...
The finest attribute of this verdant, untamed bit of Ireland is indubitably the coast, and the reinvented Cliff House Hotel, a plinth of angular slate...
The Sienese monks who stopped at the Borgo Santo Pietro more than 800 years ago wouldn't recognize the place today. Danish owners Claus and Jeanette...
After seven years of painstaking renovation, this Four Seasons proves very much worth the wait. Made up of two palazzi dating from the fifteenth and...
Though minimalist chic and earth colors pervade at the restructured 1915 Villa Marina, each of the spacious 21 rooms is designed differently and named...
Seventy years ago, Carlo Levi painted a grim portrait of the cave-dwellers of Matera, in southern Italy's Basilicata region. Post-war governments paid...
This ancient Mediterranean beehive, often snubbed by travelers rushing to the Amalfi Coast, is in fact a fascinating and cultured place. Which is why...
This restored seventeenth-century convent in Trastevere was designed by one of the great Baroque architects, Francesco Borromini, and has all the play...
In the heart of Brunello wine country, the nearly 4,500-acre Castiglion del Bosco is one of Tuscany's most impressive debuts in years. While the...
Riding the crest of the timely wave of high-end design hotels at low-end prices, the CitizenM brand's first property, located within the Schiphol...
Things are changing in the walled city of Évora as high style arrives to satisfy the new upscale visitors' needs. Ornate Manueline windows belie...
The Du Vin chain has built its hip reputation on bold remodelings of unlikely edifices. Its latest effort may prove its most eccentric conversion yet:...
This handsome Belle Époque hotel had become a rather shabby sleeping beauty, but now the 183-room property has regained its dignity with a...
The chic and intimate AbaC sits on the Tibidabo hill at the north end of the city, on a street lined with fantastic (and fantastical) modernist...
On a pretty boulevard off Las Ramblas, the 53-room Murmuri gives travelers a high-design option that's still sophisticated. Rooms by British interior...
A few miles inland from the Mediterranean, this 67-room hotel on the Costa del Sol is the elegant centerpiece of an ambitious real-estate project that...
There may be no better place to recover from Ibiza's excesses than this 114-room resort at the verdant far end of the town of Santa Eulalia. Gently...
After a mighty makeover that spruced up the original 1882 building and added two new guest wings, a wood-and-glass chapel, and a serene spa, this...
It's no small feat to open next to the illustrious Grand Hotel and promptly steal the crown of Stockholm's best hotel. The Lydmar feels like a country...
A chalet-like building of wood and stone, with terraces and floor-to-ceiling windows in nearly every room, LeCrans is by far the most exclusive spot...
Four years, $380 million, and the talents of architect Norman Foster have given this 110-year-old fairy-tale castle hotel a stunning update, with two...
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